Lower neighborhood socioeconomic status was significantly associated with six-month all-cause hospital readmission for patients with heart failure, according to a study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle employed the Lean concept of Jidoka — automation with a human touch — to plan for and deploy bar code medication administration technology, which resulted in a decrease in safe practice violations and improvement…

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7 keys to sustainable improvement in perioperative services

DHG Healthcare, a company that provides advisory and accounting services to the healthcare community, released a report clearly defining clinical integration and the industry forces driving its popularity.  

25 countries with the most physicians per capita

  Nearly 24 percent of Americans older than 50 say that either they or a family member have experienced excessive or unwanted medical treatment, the equivalent of about 25 million people, according to a survey conducted by Purple Insights, the…

In a newly released report, the Institute of Medicine urges the government to significantly reform the system for funding graduate medical education to address deficiencies and better shape the physician workforce for the future.

CMS will hold a live encore presentation of last week's webinar on its new contracts with Quality Improvement Organizations, on July 29 at 2 p.m., EST, according to an AHA News Now report.

The costs of operating a medical emergency team to reduce critical deterioration events in children's hospitals can plausibly be recovered along with a modest reduction in those events, according to a study published in Pediatrics.